InstaWP Glossary
A glossary is an essential document for understanding the InstaWP technical terms, providing clear definitions and explanations for InstaWP's unique terminology and concepts. To assist our users it serves as a comprehensive dictionary and valuable reference guide.
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What is Dashboard: The landing page that gives you access to, preview, and manage your InstaWP WordPress site instantly.
What is Staging: Easily navigate and manage WordPress sites on InstaWP with features like importing, creating new sites, Magic Login, Reserve, Go Live, and more.
What is Collection: Reorganize the navigation bar according to your preferences, including platform blog posts and other services.
What is Announcement: Displays public notifications and declarations about new ideas, application feature improvements, bugs fixed, road maps that are being considered and planned, and so on.
What is a Call to Action (CTA): A directive option encourages the user to perform a particular action like an upgrade, warning, etc.
What is a Team profile: A team management tool that displays the team name and account settings such as team information, owner names, and members.
What is Connects: This allows you to view a list of connected Production sites and connects new sites to your InstaWP account.
What is Hosting: It is a service that provides the necessary resources specifically optimized and infrastructure to make an InstaWP WordPress website or application accessible online.
What is Disk Storage: The total amount of storage space allocated to the whole account of a staging site.
What is the Sync Events Quota: It is a work event quota provided for staging changes to a live website or vice-versa.
What is a Team Member: The person or users of your team who contribute and collaborate to streamline operations and increase efficiency, with defined tasks and duties given to them.
What is Git Operations: It refers to the actions you can perform with Git, a version control system, to manage and track changes in your code.
What is Deployment: It is the process of automatically making a certain change/branch available using GitHub.
What is Integrations: Third-party services providing email marketing, automation, and more can be accessed using InstaWP, which includes Mailchimp, Active Campaign, Atarim, Mailtrap, and Page Speed Insight.
What are Commands: The WP-CLI command-line interface allows you to browse the available command library or add new commands, such as updating plugins, configuring multisite installations, and much more, without using a web browser.
What is My account: The account setting owned by a user within InstaWP where users can manage their profile and other features such as the Beta program, Two Factor Authentication, and browser sessions.
What are Apps: These are the collections of applications that include InstaWP chrome launcher, Slack workspace, connect plugin, and GitHub testing automation to add it to your InstaWP account.
What is Magic login: The automatic login option lets you log in to your website’s WP admin panel without the need for credentials.
What is Go Live: Migrate your staging site host with InstaWP or supported hosting providers such as Runcloud & Server Avatar.
What is Export As: Lets you export the staging site by creating a zip file of it on your local computer and then using it you can import it into your LocalWP environment.
What are Tools: An InstaWP built-in tool that refers to accessing the DB editor, viewing logs, code editors, protecting sites, site usage, installing plugins, etc.
What is DB Editor: The tool that lets you manipulate site database using AdminerEvo a web-based database management.
What are View logs: The tool that lets you view and filter the error log, access log, command log, and debug log that is related to your staging site.
What is Code Editor: The tool that allows you to select your preferred code editor from Vs code and web-based editors for editing or writing source code files for your website.
What is Protect Site: This allows you to add a username and password for your website to improve security.
What is Site Usage: It refers to the storage space occupied by various files and directories on a WordPress website, including content, plugins, and core files.
What is Set Expiry Date: This refers to the setting up of the staging site expiry count date and time (UTC timezone).
What is Delete: Remove any Staging sites that are no longer used by you or your team, along with all associated files.
What is Map Domain: Lets you to add your custom domain to your website and connect that domain name to a web hosting server.
What is Import Site: A feature that allows you to import sites to your InstaWP environment from the backup files of your WordPress site via the WP Playground or UpdraftPlus.
What are Run Commands: The added WP-CLI commands that you can execute on your website through your browser.
What is Performance Page Insight: The analysis runs to evaluate your page speed performance on mobile and desktop to create faster, more efficient WordPress websites.
What is Active Integration: The integrations such as Atarim, Mailtrap, and Page Speed Insights have been configured and activated for your staging sites.
What is the Vulnerability Scanner: This enables scanning for staging and connected sites to check applications, plugins, Themes, and cores for security weaknesses or vulnerabilities.
What is Template Edit: To edit your created template, whether private or shared.
What is Statistics: The stats of staging sites created by you or your team member using a template aka template sites.
What is Sync from Site: Sync the changes you made on the parent site and want to reflect on the content of your template.
What is Monetize: It helps you monetize your shared template, which you can share publicly with anyone on the internet.
What is Setup: Edit the name and description of your template, add post-creation commands, and enable sharing.
What is Gallery: Add a cover image for your shared template, which will be displayed on the landing page and in the InstaWP store.
What is Branding: Customize the style and feel of your shared template landing page by adding a logo, creating a custom email or CSS, and so on.
What is Email Collection: Customize the email collection options that users see when they build a site using your shared template, such as sending created site credentials to the user's email.
What is Security: Enhanced the shared template with advanced security by generating random WordPress admin passwords for demo site instances or disallowing file modifications to lock site editing features.
What are Shared Template Integrations: It involves the integrations that enable connection to any CRM to create an effective lead generator for each new template site, allowing users to send WordPress emails via a selected transactional mailer or SMTP server.
What are Advance Options: The shared template's advanced settings let you configure the site duration, enable autologin to the WP admin panel, and set a redirect URL after site creation.
What is Subscription: A recurring payment plan that provides access to premium features and services on a platform.
What is InstaWP Live (Hosting usage): It lets users effortlessly view Live-hosted sites, track orders, and monitor billing details for streamlined web project management.
What is WaaS Subscription: Your InstaWP Live subscription for WaaS overviews your subscription, usage, month-to-date activity, billing date, total sites created, etc.
What are notifications: Notifications linked to your InstaWP account, which you can enable/disable such as site creation, expiration, and deletion.
What is Template Sales: The sales that the user’s shared template has produced through the InstaWP marketplace.
What is Hosting Sales: The sales that the user produces through your hosting requests.
What is Payouts: Become a seller to set up a payout account with Stripe Express and start making money by selling shared templates via the InstaWP store.
What is Store profile: The InstaWP store profile of the team allows you to add a slug and description for your InstaWP marketplace page, ideal for creators selling templates.
What is Tags Manager: Manages the team's staging tags, allowing you to add, edit, and delete them.
What is Team member: They are essential contributors who collaborate on the platform, with InstaWP allowing the assignment of specific roles and responsibilities.
What is Core Faker: To generate fake and dummy content for your WordPress site for testing or staging purposes.
What is WC Generator: To generate products, orders, coupons, customers, etc inside your WordPress site with WooCommerce installed.
What is Support access: Grant InstaWP support temporary access to your account for troubleshooting, with the option to revoke access anytime.
What is Two Factor Authentication: Add additional security to your InstaWP account using it, you will need a token or QR code to log in to your account.
What is Browser Sessions: Manage and log out of active sessions on other browsers and devices, with the option to log out from all sessions across all devices.
What is Edge Caching: It reduces latency and improves application performance by storing frequently accessed data closer to end-users.
What is a Private template: Templates used internally by you or your team members, serve as ideal blueprints ensuring consistent application of best practices and preferred setups across projects.
What is a Shared Template: Templates that allow anyone online to create guest sites via a shareable link, perfect for demonstrating and widely sharing setups and demos.
What is a Monetized template: Templates that maximize your earnings by selling shared templates directly through links or leveraging the InstaWP Store's extensive reach.
What is SMTP: It stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is a communication protocol for sending and receiving email messages online.
What is DNS: The domain name system (DNS) is a database that stores and translates Internet domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
What is an API Token: Used in token-based authentication to allow an application to access an API.
What are Bulk actions: The actions performed on your selected sites at once, for staging sites (run commands & delete) and connected sites (Update & remove plugins/themes).
What is Server location: It is the physical location of the data center where your WordPress website is hosted.
What is LocalWP: It is a tool created to help simplify setting up a local WordPress server on a Mac, PC, or Linux for WordPress development.
What is Configurations: Set up pre-configured parameters like PHP version, WordPress version, and pre-installed themes or plugins before creating a new website.
What is Staging site: An environment that is a replica of your live site for testing changes before deploying them to the live site.
What is File backup: WordPress files include images, media content, blog posts, and everything else stored in the wp-content/uploads folders on your website.
What is Database Backup: The WordPress database includes the content of your blog posts and pages, comments, form submissions, website settings, and designs.
What is Alias: The name provided by you as the DNS hostname of your selected hosting provider.
What is API Key: The application Programming Interface key, acts as a unique identifier and authenticator for an InstaWP application or user accessing an API.
What is API Quota Limit: APIs have a limit of maximum number of API request that can be made within a specific timeframe to prevent abuse and maintain system performance.
What is Beta Program: Get the latest features and updates including selling a template.
What is Clone Site: To create a duplicate site of your existing InstaWP staging site in the dashboard in one click.
What is Creds: The WordPress admin panel login credentials that refers 'username' for the username and 'password' for the password.
What is CNAME: A Canonical Name is a type of DNS record that maps an alias name to a true or canonical domain name.
What is CSV: Comma-Separated Values is a plain text file format used to store tabular data, where each line represents a single record with each field.
What is FTP: It is a communication protocol used to transfer files between computers over an InstaWP network. It allows users to upload and download files from a remote server to their local machine or vice versa.
What is PHP Config: The WordPress site's PHP settings & limits preserve your server's resources, to set limits on the max size of a file that can be uploaded.
What is Plugins: To add features or functionality InstaWP provides, such as WordPress plugins or browser extensions. You can Install plugins and themes to your website from open-source WordPress software.
What is Purge Cache: Clearing stored data and resources will allow your users to see the most up-to-date content while also improving website speed.
What is Reserve : This allows you to reserve a site i.e. mark a site as permanent, all our paid plans allow ALL sites to be marked as permanent.
What is White label: It is for adding a custom suffix domain to your website which, transforms the process of the platform and its services into your own.
What is Version: It is a term used to keep track of the progress of your website's work by saving the current version in snapshot form and restoring it to its previous version if any issues arise.
What is WP-CLI: It is a command-line interface for WordPress that allows you to manage and interact with your WordPress sites without the need of a web browser.
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What is Dashboard: The landing page that gives you access to, preview, and manage your InstaWP WordPress site instantly.
What is Staging: Easily navigate and manage WordPress sites on InstaWP with features like importing, creating new sites, Magic Login, Reserve, Go Live, and more.
What is Collection: Reorganize the navigation bar according to your preferences, including platform blog posts and other services.
What is Announcement: Displays public notifications and declarations about new ideas, application feature improvements, bugs fixed, road maps that are being considered and planned, and so on.
What is a Call to Action (CTA): A directive option encourages the user to perform a particular action like an upgrade, warning, etc.
What is a Team profile: A team management tool that displays the team name and account settings such as team information, owner names, and members.
What is Connects: This allows you to view a list of connected Production sites and connects new sites to your InstaWP account.
What is Hosting: It is a service that provides the necessary resources specifically optimized and infrastructure to make an InstaWP WordPress website or application accessible online.
What is Disk Storage: The total amount of storage space allocated to the whole account of a staging site.
What is the Sync Events Quota: It is a work event quota provided for staging changes to a live website or vice-versa.
What is a Team Member: The person or users of your team who contribute and collaborate to streamline operations and increase efficiency, with defined tasks and duties given to them.
What is Git Operations: It refers to the actions you can perform with Git, a version control system, to manage and track changes in your code.
What is Deployment: It is the process of automatically making a certain change/branch available using GitHub.
What is Integrations: Third-party services providing email marketing, automation, and more can be accessed using InstaWP, which includes Mailchimp, Active Campaign, Atarim, Mailtrap, and Page Speed Insight.
What are Commands: The WP-CLI command-line interface allows you to browse the available command library or add new commands, such as updating plugins, configuring multisite installations, and much more, without using a web browser.
What is My account: The account setting owned by a user within InstaWP where users can manage their profile and other features such as the Beta program, Two Factor Authentication, and browser sessions.
What are Apps: These are the collections of applications that include InstaWP chrome launcher, Slack workspace, connect plugin, and GitHub testing automation to add it to your InstaWP account.
What is Magic login: The automatic login option lets you log in to your website’s WP admin panel without the need for credentials.
What is Go Live: Migrate your staging site host with InstaWP or supported hosting providers such as Runcloud & Server Avatar.
What is Export As: Lets you export the staging site by creating a zip file of it on your local computer and then using it you can import it into your LocalWP environment.
What are Tools: An InstaWP built-in tool that refers to accessing the DB editor, viewing logs, code editors, protecting sites, site usage, installing plugins, etc.
What is DB Editor: The tool that lets you manipulate site database using AdminerEvo a web-based database management.
What are View logs: The tool that lets you view and filter the error log, access log, command log, and debug log that is related to your staging site.
What is Code Editor: The tool that allows you to select your preferred code editor from Vs code and web-based editors for editing or writing source code files for your website.
What is Protect Site: This allows you to add a username and password for your website to improve security.
What is Site Usage: It refers to the storage space occupied by various files and directories on a WordPress website, including content, plugins, and core files.
What is Set Expiry Date: This refers to the setting up of the staging site expiry count date and time (UTC timezone).
What is Delete: Remove any Staging sites that are no longer used by you or your team, along with all associated files.
What is Map Domain: Lets you to add your custom domain to your website and connect that domain name to a web hosting server.
What is Import Site: A feature that allows you to import sites to your InstaWP environment from the backup files of your WordPress site via the WP Playground or UpdraftPlus.
What are Run Commands: The added WP-CLI commands that you can execute on your website through your browser.
What is Performance Page Insight: The analysis runs to evaluate your page speed performance on mobile and desktop to create faster, more efficient WordPress websites.
What is Active Integration: The integrations such as Atarim, Mailtrap, and Page Speed Insights have been configured and activated for your staging sites.
What is the Vulnerability Scanner: This enables scanning for staging and connected sites to check applications, plugins, Themes, and cores for security weaknesses or vulnerabilities.
What is Template Edit: To edit your created template, whether private or shared.
What is Statistics: The stats of staging sites created by you or your team member using a template aka template sites.
What is Sync from Site: Sync the changes you made on the parent site and want to reflect on the content of your template.
What is Monetize: It helps you monetize your shared template, which you can share publicly with anyone on the internet.
What is Setup: Edit the name and description of your template, add post-creation commands, and enable sharing.
What is Gallery: Add a cover image for your shared template, which will be displayed on the landing page and in the InstaWP store.
What is Branding: Customize the style and feel of your shared template landing page by adding a logo, creating a custom email or CSS, and so on.
What is Email Collection: Customize the email collection options that users see when they build a site using your shared template, such as sending created site credentials to the user's email.
What is Security: Enhanced the shared template with advanced security by generating random WordPress admin passwords for demo site instances or disallowing file modifications to lock site editing features.
What are Shared Template Integrations: It involves the integrations that enable connection to any CRM to create an effective lead generator for each new template site, allowing users to send WordPress emails via a selected transactional mailer or SMTP server.
What are Advance Options: The shared template's advanced settings let you configure the site duration, enable autologin to the WP admin panel, and set a redirect URL after site creation.
What is Subscription: A recurring payment plan that provides access to premium features and services on a platform.
What is InstaWP Live (Hosting usage): It lets users effortlessly view Live-hosted sites, track orders, and monitor billing details for streamlined web project management.
What is WaaS Subscription: Your InstaWP Live subscription for WaaS overviews your subscription, usage, month-to-date activity, billing date, total sites created, etc.
What are notifications: Notifications linked to your InstaWP account, which you can enable/disable such as site creation, expiration, and deletion.
What is Template Sales: The sales that the user’s shared template has produced through the InstaWP marketplace.
What is Hosting Sales: The sales that the user produces through your hosting requests.
What is Payouts: Become a seller to set up a payout account with Stripe Express and start making money by selling shared templates via the InstaWP store.
What is Store profile: The InstaWP store profile of the team allows you to add a slug and description for your InstaWP marketplace page, ideal for creators selling templates.
What is Tags Manager: Manages the team's staging tags, allowing you to add, edit, and delete them.
What is Team member: They are essential contributors who collaborate on the platform, with InstaWP allowing the assignment of specific roles and responsibilities.
What is Core Faker: To generate fake and dummy content for your WordPress site for testing or staging purposes.
What is WC Generator: To generate products, orders, coupons, customers, etc inside your WordPress site with WooCommerce installed.
What is Support access: Grant InstaWP support temporary access to your account for troubleshooting, with the option to revoke access anytime.
What is Two Factor Authentication: Add additional security to your InstaWP account using it, you will need a token or QR code to log in to your account.
What is Browser Sessions: Manage and log out of active sessions on other browsers and devices, with the option to log out from all sessions across all devices.
What is Edge Caching: It reduces latency and improves application performance by storing frequently accessed data closer to end-users.
What is a Private template: Templates used internally by you or your team members, serve as ideal blueprints ensuring consistent application of best practices and preferred setups across projects.
What is a Shared Template: Templates that allow anyone online to create guest sites via a shareable link, perfect for demonstrating and widely sharing setups and demos.
What is a Monetized template: Templates that maximize your earnings by selling shared templates directly through links or leveraging the InstaWP Store's extensive reach.
What is SMTP: It stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is a communication protocol for sending and receiving email messages online.
What is DNS: The domain name system (DNS) is a database that stores and translates Internet domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
What is an API Token: Used in token-based authentication to allow an application to access an API.
What are Bulk actions: The actions performed on your selected sites at once, for staging sites (run commands & delete) and connected sites (Update & remove plugins/themes).
What is Server location: It is the physical location of the data center where your WordPress website is hosted.
What is LocalWP: It is a tool created to help simplify setting up a local WordPress server on a Mac, PC, or Linux for WordPress development.
What is Configurations: Set up pre-configured parameters like PHP version, WordPress version, and pre-installed themes or plugins before creating a new website.
What is Staging site: An environment that is a replica of your live site for testing changes before deploying them to the live site.
What is File backup: WordPress files include images, media content, blog posts, and everything else stored in the wp-content/uploads folders on your website.
What is Database Backup: The WordPress database includes the content of your blog posts and pages, comments, form submissions, website settings, and designs.
What is Alias: The name provided by you as the DNS hostname of your selected hosting provider.
What is API Key: The application Programming Interface key, acts as a unique identifier and authenticator for an InstaWP application or user accessing an API.
What is API Quota Limit: APIs have a limit of maximum number of API request that can be made within a specific timeframe to prevent abuse and maintain system performance.
What is Beta Program: Get the latest features and updates including selling a template.
What is Clone Site: To create a duplicate site of your existing InstaWP staging site in the dashboard in one click.
What is Creds: The WordPress admin panel login credentials that refers 'username' for the username and 'password' for the password.
What is CNAME: A Canonical Name is a type of DNS record that maps an alias name to a true or canonical domain name.
What is CSV: Comma-Separated Values is a plain text file format used to store tabular data, where each line represents a single record with each field.
What is FTP: It is a communication protocol used to transfer files between computers over an InstaWP network. It allows users to upload and download files from a remote server to their local machine or vice versa.
What is PHP Config: The WordPress site's PHP settings & limits preserve your server's resources, to set limits on the max size of a file that can be uploaded.
What is Plugins: To add features or functionality InstaWP provides, such as WordPress plugins or browser extensions. You can Install plugins and themes to your website from open-source WordPress software.
What is Purge Cache: Clearing stored data and resources will allow your users to see the most up-to-date content while also improving website speed.
What is Reserve : This allows you to reserve a site i.e. mark a site as permanent, all our paid plans allow ALL sites to be marked as permanent.
What is White label: It is for adding a custom suffix domain to your website which, transforms the process of the platform and its services into your own.
What is Version: It is a term used to keep track of the progress of your website's work by saving the current version in snapshot form and restoring it to its previous version if any issues arise.
What is WP-CLI: It is a command-line interface for WordPress that allows you to manage and interact with your WordPress sites without the need of a web browser.
Updated on: 31/07/2024
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